February Meet

Friday-29th UPDATE: Lunch to purchase at the February Meet will be a choice of pizza (double cheese or pepperoni) or hotdogs.  These will both come with chips and a drink for $4.  Snacks will also be available.
To help in Painesville's preparation to have enough for everyone who wants it, if you know how many will be eating, please let me know a head-count.  If you know a breakdown of pizza v hot dogs that's even better.  Just let me know and I'll pass it to Painesville.
When you arrive, you will be able to place orders and pay for lunches in the morning to help move things along smoothly during the lunches.

Our February Meet is fast approaching and as our final sectional meet of the season, brings a few scheduling changes.

1) At the end of the day, we will have awards for both the Feb meet, but also for the overall season in the NE Section which will involve tallying points throughout the day, and will give us about a 60 minute break between the final round and the award presentation.

2) Our schedule for the day will be posted prior to the meet.  We will add a few rounds to the day to make up for January's meet as well as lunch breaks and the 2nd break at the end of quizzing.

3) {Change}At 9.10am we will gather all OFFICIALS for Directions/Assignments, but NOT everyone for awards/info, and will hold the November awards till the end of the day to help move through the rest of the day.  Someone will be available for questions/directions in the entrance area.

Snow note: Though there is still a chance of snow in northern Ohio in February, it is highly unlikely that we will cancel this meet, as it is our last of the season.  If snow becomes a factor, it may be delayed a couple hours to allow roads to clear and the number of rounds shortened, but not cancelled.  A determination would be made Thursday night or Friday morning before.

Finally, thanks to Painesville Assembly, Pastor Carrie and Heather Jarrell and to everyone for hosting.  For directions, you can click here for the Painesville direction page or here, for Google maps with their address plugged in.

January Meet Canceled

It's a bit ahead of the planned announcement schedule, and a bummer in a lot of ways, but all the signs from the weather guessers are quite confidently pointing to the majority of snowfall Friday will coming after sunset with some of the heaviest amounts will falling in the center of our section, meaning that even if snowfall and roads are decent where you start, they are sure to get nasty as you travel to the meet in Lowellville.

 

Had the snowfall been tracking more to daylight hours today we could have watched and waited a bit longer, but rather than have everyone waiting through the night and wondering, best to get it decided on now.

Thank you coaches, parents and pastors for your feedback, ideas and patience in this decision.  The value of the meet is great, but the safety of all our families is greater.  I look forward to a rocking February meet and we'll see if we can spice some things up then to help make up for missing this month.

Blessings!

January Meet and the Snow

Winter Weather alerts are in effect for the next few days, including Saturday for the January meet throughout the NE section of Ohio.  We want to have a great meet certainly, but we want all the teams and families to be safe to and from the meet, which is more important than the meet itself.  So, we will be monitoring the snowfall, road conditions and weather throughout the section leading up to the meet.

A preliminary decision will be made at approximately 5pm Friday evening, followed by updates every 3 hours (approx).  A final decision will be made approximately 5-6am.
*Should the decision to cancel be made at anytime, there will not be a reversal to have it.
*At this time, the meet is still scheduled on.
*It is possible that teams that feel they could make it could still quiz in an exhibition meet that would not count towards the overall season standings.

Teams/Coaches, please feel free to post weather and road conditions in your area in the comments to this post, these will help us know what local and national outlets are saying about the snow.